US1036236A - Apparatus for obtaining double records. - Google Patents

Description

D. HIGHAM.

APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING DOUBLE RECORDS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 8, 1909.

1,036,236, Patented Aug. 20, 1912.

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APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING DOUBLE RECORDS.

APPLIOATIUN FILED B11048, 1909.

1 ,036,236. Patented Aug. 20,1912.

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APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING DOUBLE RECORDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 8, 1909. Serial No. 532,087.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL HIGHAM, a citizen-of the United States, and a resident of New .York, county of New .York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Obtaining Double Records, of which the following is a description.

This invent-ion relates to apparatus for simultaneously recording a double record, one visual, the other auricular. Although the invention is particularly adapted for use with a honograph and a motion picture camera, it is equally applicable to any apparatus for recording sound, and to any apparatus for recording pictures or views, whether of moving or of still objects. For convenience of description, the terms recorder and camera are used, together with terms descriptive of their characteris tic parts. Such terms are illustrative merely, and are not in any sense used as 4 terms of limitation.

As is well known to those familiar with the art, both the phonograph and the moving picture have become firmly established in popular favor. A demand for the combinatlon of the two to reproduce an entire play or other scenes has arisen, and many devices for synchronizing the two are in practical operation. It has not been possible heretofore, however, to position the phonograph pro erly with respect to the source of sound an prominence to the concealing means. After considerable experimentation, it has been discovered that by creating an optical illusion of any desired type so that an object at the front shall appear as though at the back, the desired result can be obtained easily and. inexpensively.

One arrangement which has been used successfullv is illustrated lnthe accompanying drawings, wherein: I v

Figure 1 is a. diagrammatlc plan view thereof; and Fig. 2 a front elevation of the same as it ap ears from the camera.

Similar re erence numerals refer to similarparts throughout the drawings.

venience as a picture which is supported inmot-ion without giving undue visibly in any convenient manner, as by a light framework 5. Between the easel and the picture, the recording apparatus 6 is placed, preferably either artly beyond the stageopening or beyond the field of the camera. In this preferred form as illu's trated, part of the recording apparatus, as

the horn 7 extends in close proximity to the source of sound and motion. It will thus be evident that although the phonograph is in its desired place close tolthe'source of sound and 'motion, it will. be excluded from the field of the camera. No means for concealing the phonograph will be apparent from the camera, the result being a picture representing the scenic settings in their usual inconspicuous place at therear. This is due, as will be evident, to the fact that the position of the easel at the rear is apparent from its contact with the floor, but as the picture has no visible means of support by which it can be visually located, it naturally will be associated with the easel'and appear to be mounted thereon. The effect is especially pronounced in a reproduced picture, as the camera reproduces the ,same from but one angle. To heighten the illusion, the usual easel studs are omitted from the easel and fastened to the picture, as shown at 8. The camera is shown at 9.

Many modifications, all within, the scope of this invention, will be'apparent. In short, the invention consists in mounting any suitable concealing device in the front of the scene in such a way as to make it appear located in the back of the scene.

Having thus disclosed one embodiment of my invention, what I claimand desire to secure by Letters Patent is Patented Aug.20, 1912. I

1. In combination, a camera, sound recording apparatus, and means comprising spaced members respectively in front and in back of said apparatus for forming an optical illusion, said means being adapted to exclude said apparatus from the field of the camera,

graph having its horn extending therefrom adjacent a source of sound and motion, a concealing ,dev1ce in front of the phonograph, means adistance in back of said device arranged to create the optical illusion that said device iswadjacent thereto, and

.conoealedm'eans to selpport said device, substantially asdescribe 4. In'zcombinatiom a camera, a phonohaving its horn; extending therefrom 10.

' a concealing-"device:in-front of said phonoadjaeent to: a sourceof sound and motion,

g-ra' h,fc0n0ealed'm eans to support the con cea mg device, and means at the' rear of the "phonograph: so} arranged; in reference to the 1 concealingdevice [an to the'camera as to scribed.

."5. A device adapted to create an optical illusion, consisting of a concealing device,

on, substantially as describe this 3rdday of December 1909.

concealed means to support the same, and means removed at a distance therefrom and arranged to create the optical illusion that the concealing device is connected therewith, substantially as described. I

. 6. In combination, a camera, sound recording apparatus, and means for excluding said apparatus from the field of the camera, said means comprising a picture in front of said apparatus and'an easel in back of said apparatus so arranged with reference to said picture and camera as to create the optical illusion that said picture is supported there- This specification signed and witnessed Witnesses:

' VVARREN H. SMALL,

JOHN M. CANFIELD.

DANIEL HIGHAM.

flcopiea'et this p atent mayibc obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Y Washington, D; C.

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